Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Hints and tips on how to run hundreds of similar simulations automatically?

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:47 PM, CleanTech Analytics <jeremiah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

O- and jE+ can be used with e+ macro functions as well.

Jeremiah D. Crossett
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:42 PM, CleanTech Analytics <jeremiah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think jE+ would be perfect for your SIM, here is a link http://www.iesd.dmu.ac.uk/~jeplus/wiki/doku.php?id=start

And jE+ .net is perfect for EC2 here is a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hpaXGeakV78#!

I had this on EC2 before and plan to be back on EC2 soon, if you need any help getting going or have any interest in collaboration please let me know-

Best regards-

Jeremiah D. Crossett
CleanTech Analytics

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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Edwin Lee <leeed2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You could write EP-Macro logic in your input file (imf) to take each variable and create the final idf contents. You could also do calculations in another pre-processor that might be more convenient outside of EP-Macro logic. The imf can still have EP-Macro variable placeholders in the imf.

There's a plethora of other ways...I'm not familiar with amazon ec2, but you could put the E+ call inside some C that pre-processes variables to be passed into the input file using...say...awk. :-D This form would be a nice way to do complicated calculations rather than in the suitable, yet bulky, EP-Macro code.

Edwin

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:57 PM, hitehrewowwww <kamilien1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm looking to come up with a method to simulate one building with hundreds to thousands of small variations occurring, the goal being to come up with a simple impact analysis model that shows what happens each time a variable, such as window to wall ratio, window glazing, building orientation, fenestration, weather, or occupancy schedule change.

I want to be able to specify a list of inputs that I'd like to change, the increment to change each simulation by, and run these simulations (probably on amazon ec2) in the cloud. Then I'd like to translate the options into first and operational cost calculators.

I'm trying to come up with an automated way to do this, does anyone have ideas on how to go about this problem?

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